Yesterday, The Strokes and The Kings of Leon found themselves in the same city with the day off, so what else would there be to do besides an impromtu game of baseball? It happend, and somehow the bands secured the use of David Lipscomb’s baseball field for the well timed spring event. While The Strokes team was comprised of the band and road crew, The KOL had to draft the rhythm section of Slack to fill out their roster. The nine inning game resulted in a victory for the KOL, or “South” team, who reportedly scored eight of their runs during the one inning that Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas pitched.
Pensacola, Florida’s This Bike is a Pipe Bomb inadvertantly stirred up some major shit in Athens, Ohio on Thursday when local authorities saw a bike parked with one of the band’s stickers on it.
Apparently the War on Terror doesn’t stop at Morrissey. Your tax dollars at work!
Courtney Love kicks it without booze (but in the same hotel where she passed out at the pool last year).
Half a demo of a new G ‘n’ R song called “Better” is here.
UPDATE: Try that link now.
UPDATE #2: Check out this other leaked track, a full demo of a song called “I.R.S.”
Have any friends in L.A. who want to be in a music video for a certain beloved indie band?
A new study looks into the weird, wild world of what makes a song a hit song.
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